After saying this, the officiator's senior brother violently grabbed onto his chest and detonated his internal world energies together with his life and spiritual essences. The moment he did this, the remaining 46 beings who were tasked with attacking Solanky all followed suit and detonated their essences. Their essences and energies didn't spread out like they would, but they were all sucked into the golden bead. The bead levitated before the female officiator, who was sobbing due to the loss of her senior brother.
She then grabbed onto the golden bead and pressed it between her chest. The golden bead filled with the life and spiritual essences of over 30 saint emperors shimmered brightly. The golden bead began to merge with the body of the female officiator, and it began to empower her with the essences of the beings who willingly sacrificed themselves to it. The officiator's body began to glow with golden brown engravings, and her life aura and strength began to spike sharply. Within the blink of an eye, her power had risen from 2 billion times the power of an ISG to 7.5 billion times that strength, and it was still on the rise.
Solanky, watching this from afar, was astonished because he had never heard of other beings at the transcendent entity level willing to sacrifice themselves to make one person powerful just to avenge them. And this bead before him could temporarily bypass the laws set in the beyond realm and raise one's power to incomprehensible heights. This made Solanky fear and revere the true peak-turn beings, as they could forge artifacts that could directly raise the power of any being beneath them to the half-step peak-turn level within seconds. The essences and energies from the golden bead permeated the female officiator's body, filling her with immense energies and essences, making her own little chaotic. Solanky knew he couldn't allow her to continue absorbing these energies; he dashed towards her at an incredible speed with the spear in her, but before he could get a hundred meters from the officiator, a premonition of danger struck him.
Solanky stopped in his tracks and began retreating away from the officiator as he sensed that her life energies now were similar to his and they were rising. This meant the treasure sought to elevate her to the level of a half-step peak-turn being without using the traditional route, and this could later backfire on her if she fails to control the energies and essences. The golden bead completely merged with the officiator, and the space they stood in shook violently as if the world was rejecting her existence. Her power had surpassed the capped 10 billion times the strength of an ISG of the beyond realm as it climbed to 20 billion times, approaching the base power of a half-step peak turn, which was 50 billion times the strength of an ISG.
The officiator, now having two times Solanky's power, laughed sinisterly and said, "This is all happening because of you. I was blinded by a power I couldn't have, although I knew it. But now it doesn't matter because I have the power now, and I can take what I want from you and uncover all your secrets." She stretched her arm, and a long whip appeared in her hands; she then lashed out towards Solanky.
Solanky also grabbed the spear and swung it with all his might, activating the collapsing neutron star technique. When the two weapons collided, the stable space of the secret space vibrated violently, and the barrier erected by the remaining 50 saint emperors shattered instantly, throwing them off into the distance and severely injuring them in the process.
Solanky was at the receiving end of the force, felt his hand go numb for the first time, and instantly knew that his physical strength alone wasn't enough to face the newly amped officiator alone. And he needed to come up with a quick plan, or he would be in a dangerous position, and escaping today would be rolled out. They clashed several times, and in all those clashes, Solanky seemed to be at a disadvantage, and the half-step peak-turn spear seemed to have developed fissures of cracks on its surface. Solanky realized that the whip in the hands of the officiator was a tier higher than his spear. All this while, during their exchange of blows, Solanky had activated the reflection stage of the devouring heart technique, but he hadn't redirected the force back to the female officiator.
The female, thrilled with her newfound surge in power, laughed out loud and said, "You are no match for me now. I will crush you now and seize your treasures." She drew an arc in mid-air, and the space they were in became isolated from the outside. Solanky knew this was her absolute domain, although weaker than his in terms of laws, control, and manipulation; the energies supplied to it were vast and twice his. Solanky, inside her domain, had his movement restricted to a third of his regular speed; the officiator attacked him from all sides, and Solanky was left to only defend without any room for offense.
Solanky then revealed a sinister smile as the spear in his hand vanished and it was being replaced by a blade that looked like a scimitar. Solanky, with a half-step peak—turn spiritual sense, detected the true location of the female officiator, and channeled the reflection to the blade as he swung it at the female officiator who was hidden in the domain.
The blade's energies, together with the reflected force Solanky had absorbed and stored earlier, cleaved through the domain's sealed space like paper. CLANG!!
The female officiator's domain disappeared in an instant, as that force alone was way greater than what she could bear. The officiator was thrown into the distance and coughed out some essence blood; she then said in a shocked tone, "Impossible, a true peak-turn offensive artifact. Who exactly are you? To have this many treasures. Forget about it; this makes me want to kill you even more." With a crazed look in her eyes, she dashed towards Solanky at a terrifying speed; if not for Solanky activating his observational technique, he wouldn't be able to track her movements.
Solanky then decided to end it once and for all, and to do that he had to destabilize her mind before he could use his spiritual body's power to crash her. Solanky then stopped moving and opened his hand, and one could see a velvet ball rotating slowly in his palm. The female officiator, seeing this, was terrified because she knew that after becoming a saint emperor, Solanky's use of this velvet ball had surpassed her previous encounter. Within a split second an area of 1000 light-years was enveloped by a velvet dome; this trapped the remaining 50 beings who set up the spatial formation. A velvet mist permeated the space, and one could see strange black flames burning the walls of the dome.
The female officiator now understood the threat Solanky posed to her, as she could meet her demise if she were a little careless. This velvet dome was Solanky's velvet world of contamination domain, a move even half-step peak-turn beings would have difficulties in escaping. Solanky then clenched his fist, and the dome began to shrink; a saint emperor who was unlucky enough to be near the walls of the dome was incinerated into ashes, leaving traces of his existence behind. The others seeing this were all terrified, as they knew the only option now was death, so in order to die in vain, they sacrificed their essences to the golden bead, but how could Solanky let that happen again? The area around each of these 50 saint emperors began burning with icy blue flames; the officiator was confused because the sacrificed essences of these beings all seemed to be frozen in place and restricted, and the golden bead couldn't absorb them.
Solanky, using the control of the domain, activated reflection again as he swung his blade towards the female officiator. With his might and essence power of the frozen essences, the blades' force reached 40 billion times the strength or power output of an ISG.
The blade's force crashed into the female officiator, and her arm, which grabbed on the whip, was cleanly severed off. The female officiator seeing this was shocked, as all the power and sacrifices of her comrades and senior brother were for nothing. Solanky, spotting an opening, quickly struck the disturbed female officiator with his spiritual body's finger of terror technique, which crumbled all her defenses in seconds. Solanky, using his velvet cloud of contamination, quickly infected her consciousness with it and trapped her in a mental flashback loop and illusion as he dealt with her physical body.
The female officiator falling into the illusion had no way to quickly tell fake from illusion, as Solanky's spiritual body alone was three times larger than hers. In the outside world the chains and black pin from before in Abope city had wrapped around her body and pierced her skin. Solanky then destroyed her internal world and fractured her consciousness, making it difficult for her to come back to her old glory. Just like that, Solanky settled the score between him and his cunning officiator, who was filled with greed.